By building a People’s Regulatory Agenda, we can make a clear statement about what our priorities are and how they contrast with that of the Trump administration. You can help. Find out how below.
When the Trump administration releases the first Regulatory Agenda of its second term, it will provide the public with its first glimpse of how aggressively the president will pursue his promised deregulatory agenda. A series of executive orders and memoranda have directed agencies to begin drafting lists of existing rules to repeal or weaken. We can expect the Regulatory Agenda to compile these lists and provide a timeline for their completion.
But the public’s priorities are far different. We want sensible safeguards that ensure that companies don’t try to pad their bottom lines by cutting corners on safety or by cheating their customers. We want robust protections against contaminants in our drinking water, dangerous food on store shelves, hazardous workplace conditions, unreasonably risky banking practices that threaten our savings, and other dangers that we cannot protect ourselves against on our own.
Working together over the coming months, we can build a People’s Regulatory Agenda that states clearly what our priorities are and how they contrast with that of the Trump administration. Here’s how we can start:
Keep scrolling to add your voice and recommendations to this project.
You can provide suggestions for what should be included in a People’s Regulatory Agenda by filling out a brief survey.
Existing law offers the public many options for opposing or blocking new regulations that they do not want. In contrast, it is comparatively hard to spur federal agencies to undertake new regulations that the public does want. The best tool available is the public petition process provided by the Administrative Procedure Act. You can share your ideas for potential rulemaking petitions in this brief survey.
Any person or organization can submit a rulemaking petition to federal agencies, but all petitions should contain certain elements to meet the requirements of the Administrative Procedure Act and agencies’ rulemaking processes. We’ve compiled a “how-to” checklist for rulemaking petitions that anyone can use. You can also find some sample petitions below.
Sample rulemaking petitions:
* FACT Coalition, Petition for Rulemaking to Require Disclosure of Tax-Relevant Information for Each Country, to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, July 31, 2024
* Coalition of Institutional Investors and Securities Law Experts, Petition for rulemaking on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure, to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, October 1, 2018